EUGENE – Oregon guard Damyean Dotson wasn’t worried about where the Ducks would be seeded in the NCAA tournament. It was all about location.

Dotson didn’t get his wish, but he’s happy the Ducks are back in March Madness after advancing to the Sweet 16 last year.

Oregon (23-9) received the No. 7 seed in the West region Sunday and opens Thursday against No. 10 seed BYU (23-11) in Milwaukee, Wisc., in a rematch of a Dec. 21 game played in Eugene. Oregon prevailed 100-96 in overtime.

“I was trying to get to San Antonio,” said Dotson, a sophomore from Houston. “We could have been a 12 seed, I just wanted to go back home.”

It will be a homecoming for sophomore forward Elgin Cook, who is from Milwaukee.

There are eight regional sites for opening-round games.

Oregon coach Dana Altman said senior forward Richard Amardi (hometown Toronto, Ontario) and senior guard Jason Calliste (Scarborough, Ontario) were pulling for a trip to Buffalo, N.Y., and Houston natives Joseph Young and Dotson were hoping for San Antonio.

The Oregon/BYU winner plays the winner of Thursday’s game between No. 2 seed Wisconsin and No. 15 seed American on Saturday in Milwaukee, which would be a home game of sorts for Wisconsin if it advances.

Despite winning the Pac-12 tournament championship last season, the Ducks were a No. 12 seed in the Midwest region and drew No. 5 seed Oklahoma State in their opening game. Oregon defeated the Cowboys and No. 4 seed Saint Louis before losing to eventual national champion Louisville in the Sweet 16.

“I feel like we were disrespected last year,” senior guard Johnathan Loyd said. “That was a little motivation.”

Truth is, all 68 teams in the NCAA tournament have plenty of incentive.

Altman wasn’t concerned about the Ducks’ seed last season, and he had the same sentiment Sunday.

“BYU’s excited about playing us. We’re excited about playing them,” Altman said.

In the first matchup between Oregon and BYU, Calliste scored a career-high 31 points. Junior guard Tyler Haws, who averages 23.4 points per game, paced the Cougars with 32 points.

BYU will be without second-leading scorer Kyle Collinsworth. The sophomore guard suffered a season-ending knee injury Tuesday in a loss to Gonzaga in the West Coast Conference championship game.

“Whoever’s backing him up is real excited about the opportunity,” Altman said. “For one game I think it’s way overplayed when somebody’s out.”

The game tips off on truTV after the Wisconsin/American game, which begins at 9:40 a.m.

Oregon opened the 2013-14 season 13-0 and rose to No. 10 in the Associated Press poll, but the Ducks lost eight of their next 10 games, including five in a row, to fall out of contention for the Pac-12 regular season championship.

Oregon finished the regular season on a seven-game winning streak, defeated Oregon State in the first round of the Pac-12 tournament last week in Las Vegas, but lost to UCLA 82-63 on Thursday in the quarterfinals.

The Ducks took Friday and Saturday off before returning to practice Sunday. So how will they bounce back from their most lopsided loss of the season?

“We’ve got a sour taste in our mouth,” Loyd said. “We didn’t feel like we showed people our best game.”

Oregon will be making its 12th NCAA tournament appearance, and second in a row under Altman, who is in his fourth season after spending the previous 16 years at Creighton.

Creighton is the No. 3 seed in the West region and could play Oregon in a Sweet 16 matchup in Anaheim, Calif. For Altman to coach against his former team, which features player of the year candidate Doug McDermott, both teams would have to win two games.

For now, the focus is on BYU.

“At this point, you just wanna be in there and play games,” Loyd said. “It’s the last team standing from here on out.”